AdGuard Family Plan Lifetime Subscription - 9 Devices US$8.80 (~A$11.39) + 10% GST @ StackSocial

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About $12 cheaper than the popular deal in Jan

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Key Features:

  • Lifetime access for 9 devices
  • Desktop & mobile support
  • All updates included
  • AdGuard Family version
  • Say goodbye to annoying banners, intrusive pop-ups, and disruptive video ads as AdGuard ensures a clutter-free browsing experience.

Important Notes:

  • This plan is only available for new users
  • This is NOT a VPN
  • All sales final
  • Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
  • GST (10%) will be added if you choose country as Australia

Final Price:

  • With Australian GST: US$9.68 ~A$13.78
  • Without GST (US address): US$8.80 ~A$11.39

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  • Does this block YT ads?

    • No it does not

      • dam do you have any recommendation that does?

        • +8

          for pc, there are couple of extensions for browser. For android tv, search for tyzenTV app. For iphone, use brave browser.

          • +9

            @expertreader: Ublock origin for PC, Smart tube for androidTV

            • +9

              @Naigrabzo: I personally prefer TizenTube Cobalt to Smart Tube for AndroidTV. I tried Smart Tube and while it was functionally very good, it felt a little clunky as a tv app. My wife and I eventually started getting the hang of it, but when we have family/friends over who aren't as technically inclined, they had trouble using it. On the other hand, TizenTube Cobalt looks like the regular yt app, so it feels much more natural and easier for friends and family to use

              • +1

                @Opaquer: Thanks I will try that too.

              • +2

                @Opaquer: I've been using smarttube for years and thought I'd give tizentube cobalt a try just for something different and i absolutely hated it. It's too much like the real youtube app, just without ads.

                Smarttube is way better and much more configurable than tizentube.

                I'll admit it can be clunky at times, but I'd much rather smarttubes clunkiness than the unconfigurability of tizen tube.

                • @D33bz: @D33bz that's fair - admittedly we didn't try out too much configurable stuff for smart tube, but it felt so clunky and some family members just couldn't even search for videos easily, so we went for tizentube cobalt instead. It has no ads, speed controls, sponsor block, casting, adding accounts, and has some customisable stuff too for the looks, though we've kept the original look so it's easier for people to use. Out of curiosity, what stuff does smarttube have that makes it that much better?

                  • +1

                    @Opaquer: Smarttube has things like rotate video, mirror video, extra long speed menu and ability to personalize your start page, lots of audio and video options, but one of the biggest settings in the latest version is to globally block shorts videos!

                    There's many other things i can't think of offhand at the moment.

                    • @D33bz: @D33bz that's pretty cool. I think tizen is close but not quite as customisable - it has a huge speed menu (which, after ad blocking, is my favourite feature - I hated how the standard app doesn't even let you control the speed of videos on tv any more!), a bunch of default codec and quality options, the ability to turn off shorts too, and I think the ability to personalise the start page, though I haven't played around with it. But being able to rotate videos is pretty cool for those videos that people record the wrong way which is awesome! Glad there's competition and that there's options, because being able to watch stuff without ads on tv is awesome!

              • +1

                @Opaquer: This is why i love ozbargain, my BIL cancelled yt premium a few months ago, dled both Tizen and Smartube and both work great for me 😍

                Thank you!!!

            • +2

              @Naigrabzo: Don't know what idiot down voted you but this works flawlessly for me.

              I have an old vodaphone android TV and tizen doesn't work well on it. But it does look a lot more like the original app.

              • @ohyesss: Lol no probs mate.

                Vodafone android tv? That's one product I never heard of until today!

                • @Naigrabzo: It was a cheap but decent tv box, which unfortunately stopped getting updates a while ago

          • @expertreader: For PC you can also use brave browser

            • @Ironic fear: yes but extensions mean i can keep using firefox/chrome

              • @expertreader: Most people are still stuck with the idea of using only one browser for everything. Best practice now is to run multiple browsers each for certain things. It keeps things seperated for privacy and security. For example, Brave = youtube, firefox = general surfing, Mullvad = banking/gov, waterfox = dodgy stuff like aliexpress. Benefit is if you get hacked it won't be everything. Keep all your social media on one so it doesn't cross track your entire life.

                • @Elyxar: Hmm I didn't think of this but will look into this "sandbox" browser approach…

        • Newpipe or brave browser

        • uBlock Origin blockes Youtube ads

        • SmartTube for android TV, Revanced for android phone/tablets

      • +13

        Android: Morphe, Revanced, Newpipe

        Android TV: Smart tube, TizenTube Cobalt

        webOS TV: Youtube-webOS (free dev account required)

        iOS: AdGuard Browser (rip)

        Apple TV: uTube (free Apple dev account required)

        Apple ecosystem used to have Yattee, but it's kind in development limbo.

      • -2

        Then what the hell is the point

    • +1

      On a PC, yes. On mobile use revanced if you use Android.

    • Yes it does, not on chrome browser though.

      On mobile it won't block ads in youtube App however using firefox it will block youtube ads… however you could also just use the free adguard extension for both PC and android on firefox.

      • Yes, it does work on Chrome. You install the AdGuard Browser Assistant extension that works in tandem with the Adguard App on your computer. It provides system wide filtering in other apps as well.

      • Or just use Brave browser and have no ads at all on desktop or mobile.

        • AdGuard blocks ads system & network wide, not just in the browser.

    • On my iPhone on safari, yes

  • +1

    Can someone explain what it does over a normal ad blocker plugin?

    • +3

      yeah been seeing these deals and don't know what the difference is vsing using like brave

      • +2

        I use this with their DNS settings, and it can block ads in games, even the click to view ads. Good for the kids.

        • oh that's interesting! however if it blocks ads does it then disable the one where it awards you something for watching an add then?

          • +3

            @HelpfulMilk: Yep it blocks them as well.

            • @omguleh: nextdns free tier same deal (same function)

              just another option

              • @0jay: I think Adguard run the DNS and Adblock through their VPN. So if I lock the app down in Screentime, the kids can't make any changes.

                • @omguleh: far as i understand adguard vpn’s a diff product (and op states ‘This is NOT a VPN’)

                  you may have a sub tier wi vpn included tho who knows (though no idea what function a vpn on your home network anyhow)

                  • @0jay: Inside the standard app you can activate a VPN tunnel of sorts and all traffic goes through that.

                    • @omguleh: ok but what benefit tunnelling from your home network to their dns servers..?

                      • +1

                        @0jay: No idea? It’s working well for our family and how we use our devices. I paid a bit more than this but still think it’s worth it just for the simplicity side of things.

    • +1

      It's system-wide, so it's mostly helpful for blocking ads in software and apps outside the browser. But the value proposition is a lot more questionable now that you can mostly just use DNS for that.

      • Which DNS is recommended for that?

        • +1

          AdGuard DNS or NextDNS.

          But this app gives you a lot more settings & granular control, ability to turn on/off adblocking & tunneling with a single click, add exceptions for particular apps, & ability to use in conjunction with their VPN app (separate subscription for the VPN, StackSocial has cheap deals for 5-year sub etc)

    • +4

      works well in Newscorp.apps… even reformats page so you don't even know it's removed them

    • +1

      Entire phone adblocking vs just browser.

      I never get ads in any apps and when it's accidentally off it's shocking how many ads appear in apps

    • I found Adguard works pretty great on Android and extensions are harder to use on phones.

  • +1

    doesn't this come with the GLi.Net routers for free?

    • I want to know too !

    • +4

      I don't know if it's every one of their routers, but I got the Flint 2 a little bit ago, and it has this for free at a router level. I was tossing up between that and the Flint 3, which also has it for free out of the box. It's been awesome not having any in app ads any more!

    • I can confirm that my Flint has AdGuard Home built into the GLi.Net firmware. Any OpenWRT router should be able to install something similar

    • That's correct. I'm not sure if there is a difference between the home version and the paid premium version, but it works great on the flint 3. Every now and then I check the statistics and I'm amazed how much shit gets blocked. Several 1000 requests every day. Amazon, Apple and Adobe are the worst offenders in my household.

    • +3

      This can be installed on your phone if you're not at home to block ads when not on your home network.

      • Or just set up a VPN if you can.
        If the network doesn’t allow VPNs, just use cellular + VPN.

        • That's what Adguard does, it creates a VPN on the phone and then filters the traffic locally on the device. You can use their Adguard DNS and then sync it under the same private DNS as your home too if you want.

      • if you are on android and you can turn on private dns option, just set your dns to Control D's DNS servers. it will block most of ads and you dont have to create VPN connection.

    • +1

      That's AdGuard Home, which is always free. You can set that up on your router or NAS. It's similar (IMO better than) PiHole.

      This is AdGuard Adblocker app license. You can use it in conjunction with AdGuard Home. This app gives you a lot more settings & granular control on the local device, ability to turn on/off adblocking & tunneling with a single click (e.g. for cashback sites), add exceptions for particular apps, & ability to use in conjunction with their VPN app (separate subscription for the VPN, StackSocial has cheap deals for 5-year sub etc).

  • +2

    for IOS, this is so useful as it can do system wide adblock covering all apps using DNS.

    • How do you set up DNS over cellular?

      • +2

        under DNS protection settings, you can chose the DNS server you like to use. Then all your cellular / Wifi traffic will go through that server

  • +6

    Lifetime Subscription

    Who's lifetime?

    • +3

      wild

      • +6

        Found this… seems a bit misleading

        Lifetime Subscription
        Right upfront we’ll tell you: We’re not saying it lasts forever. The “lifetime” in question is that of the product.

        • This is pretty standard though; most RAM products have 'lifetime warranty' but lifetime is determined by the manufacturer/industry really… Basically it's saying if the product doesn't either get discontinued OR fundamentally changed beyond a specific point; it'll be supported. But ultimately this is at their discretion and is marketing BS. For RAM you'd typically expect that 'lifetime' to be the usable lifetime a product is produced/used, i.e. ~10+ years (say where DDR4 dominated for ~10 years time) but again it's… up to interpretation.

        • hmm

    • +2

      Yours, but remember it is made by Russians and you know how it goes… sometime people fall from window.

      • fall out the window

  • Nice, will pull the trigger now!

    • +9

      Are you American ?

        • +4

          We don't have a mad president. Only a mad prime minister. Big difference.

          • -1

            @Ozdesi2020: is that you Desi Freeman?

          • @Ozdesi2020: Yeah, we get to gradually fall into mediocrity yet still be told we're lucky.

        • I hope I was negged here for the 3rd statement, and if that's the case I'm happy

  • I was charged A$17.22 even though I provided US address

  • Some browsers detect Ad blockers and force you to disable it to continue browsing.

    Is this any helpful in case?

    • curious to know - don't think this really doesn't anything against those unlike browser addons.

    • +1

      I find those sites which detect Adblock software in use and won’t let you click through, is to use uBlock Origin’s “block element” feature. The message that comes up with “adblockers in use” is a screen overlay that can be disabled permanently by uBlock’s block element option.

  • +3

    uBlock + PiHole gets you as good and probably better blocking for free. Just slightly more work to setup (For PiHole anyway)

    • And there's also the issue of if you're only using 1 pihole; and you've got it set in your router DNS if your pihole goes down you've got no internet lol. I had 2 running to prevent this issue previously but currently only running 1 as I stopped running an extra proxmox node (which was only running a pihole, so power use vs benefit was minimal). Running 2 then requires config sync stuff in between usually etc etc.

      Waiting for Ubiquiti to update their 'ad blocking' function in my UCG Fiber to be useful/customisable so I can drop pihole altogether!

      • Just set your router to advertise google or cloudflare DNS as secondary/tertiary DNS servers with the pi as primary. If your pi goes down it'll still work fine.

        • +2

          But DNS doesn't work in a failover sense; doesn't it pick one or the other? If you've got 2 DNS servers, 1 pihole 1 google/cloudflare, I'm sure failed connections will just use the alternative connection, therefore you'll just get ads half the time (probably not exactly half but some portion of ads no ads). I don't believe 1 is considered primary.

          • @ReaperX22: Interesting! I'd never looked into it that much, I've had it setup that way for a long time and never get ads. I'm not sure if it's prioritising based on how fast the responses are received (the local pihole is always faster) or what, but just tried forcing some DNS lookups from a few different devices and they're all going through the pi even though they have public servers in their DNS list.

            • @noisymime: Yeah DNS is weird…

              Networking is black magic far as I'm concerned!

          • @ReaperX22: I'd at least be using quad9 as your alternative instead of google.

    • +1

      AdGuard Home is always free & is equivalent to PiHole. I used to run PiHole, tried AdGuard Home and like it better.

      Now I run AdGuard Home on my router, this AdGuard Adblocker app & VPN. Never looked back.

  • +1

    Main problem with this program for me is that the web is unusable now without it because I've unlearnt how to tolerate and ignore ads and newsletter popups

  • How good is it at not breaking websites? IME these types of ad blockers are great, until my wife complains x website isn't working and can't work out why.

    • +2

      That's the issue with some.. Pihole/AdGuard etc will break websites that embed or serve content from 'ad-based' links or servers even if the function isn't for serving ads.. I've seen this a few times block some popup deals, or even stop me from making a checkout in some websites too occasionally.

      I blame the website for that, though, generally. Serve shit content; get blocked yo. Lol

  • +4

    OZ20 worked

    US$8.80

    • Ah of course, I should have thought of that. I will update now, thanks.

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    • Getting the same thing any luck?

      • I created an account before buying and it worked

  • +7

    Those with Android devices can get the benefits for free by putting in dns.adguard.com into the private DNS area under network settings.

    I've been doing this for ~10 years and it's been great. There's no need to install any application.

    It can also be done on Windows machines for free too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu30Bv9hwJo

    • thanks, never knew about this!

    • I've been using private DNS for a while on S20+ but occasionally get error - cannot use private DNS on this network. Have had AdGuard DNS on home router for a while.

    • So, adding their DNS is almost the same benefits as installing their paid app?

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